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Starboard broadside view of the five-masted barque NEATH. Also equipped with an auxiliary steam engine.

(5548 gt) : Built 1906 by Rickmers Reismühlen, Rhederei & Schiffbau A. G., Bremen as R.C.RICKMERS III, and equipped with a 1160 h.p. auxiliary steam engine. She was owned by them until 1914. In 1914 she was confiscated by the British Admiralty and renamed NEATH. She was sunk on 27 March 1917 by U-66, twenty-eight miles southeast of Fastnet. details weight (tons): dimensions: 125,1 x 16,3 x 9,27 m rigging: 5 masts + 1 aux steam engine speed: about the loss cause lost: date lost: 27/03/1917 [dd/mm/yyyy] casualties: 0 about people builder: last owner: [1] British Royal Navy, Admiralty, Rn, London Neath period: 1914 ~ 1917 prev. owners: [2] Rickmers Reismühlen, Rhederei & Schiffbau A. G., Bremen R. C. Rickmers III period: 1906 ~ 1914